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American Philological Association NEWSLETTER February 2004 Volume 27, Number 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Letter from the President. .1 Slate for 2004 Election. .3 A New Award for a New Kind of Achievement Nominating Committee Report. .3 C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit. .4 Last month was the Association’s first opportunity to Awards for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics. .7 recognize a very important kind of service, whether you Precollegiate Teaching Awards . .11 see it as a service to our own Classics community, or to Call for Nominations for Outreach Prize. .14 Reports of the Vice Presidents. .15 our whole society. When the APA Division of Outreach Mellon Foundation Support for Improvements to was formed with the purpose of promoting love and l’Année philologique Web Site. .21 knowledge of the classical world among young and old Onassis Foundation Gift to Database of Classical outside its traditional setting of college education, we Bibliography. .22 were happy to find a means of honoring exceptional Report of CSWMG on Classics Journals. .22 achievements by a new nationwide prize, the Outreach Report of the Committee on the Web Site and the Newsletter. .23 Award. What we had not realized was the great abun- APA Servius Project Request for Proposals. .24 dance and variety of enterprises that would be nomi- The Iliad for America. .24 nated for this award. At the recommendation of the 135th Annual Meeting Report. .25 2003 Outreach Prize Committee (Marianne Mcdonald, Report of the Women’s Classical Caucus. .32 Chair, David Frauenfelder, John Peradotto), it was de- Awards to Members. .32 cided that the first award of this prize should be doubled, Call for Volunteers for 2005 Annual Meeting. .33 Meetings / Calls for Abstracts. .33 and the two awards happily reflect the pattern which Summer Programs. .34 we all hoped outreach would take. Officers, Directors, and Committee Members for 2004. .35 Newsletter Editorial Policies. .38 First, outreach aimed at the young and future genera- APA Office Publications Order Form. .39 tion. The program Gnothi Sauton for ancient Greek TAPA Institutional Subscriptions. .42 studies in the schools was devised by Ann Olga Koloski- Officer / Committee Survey. .43 Ostrow of Brandeis University to offer to teachers of Important Deadlines. .Back Cover all school subjects from K through 12 the chance to study ancient Greek literature and society through graduate course work and travel in Greece itself, leading to cre- The American Philological Association Newsletter (ISSN 0569- ative projects that would provide exciting curriculum 6941) is published six times a year (February, April, June, Au- gust, October, and December) by the American Philological materials, both for individual schools and circulating Association. ($3.00 of the annual dues is allocated to the pub- among groups of schools in local communities. With a lication of the Newsletter.) Send materials for publication; communications on Placement, membership, changes of ad- governing board largely drawn from teachers outside dress; and claims to: Executive Director, American Philologi- classics, and funding from the National Endowment for cal Association, 292 Logan Hall, University of Pennsylvania, the Humanities, the Niarchos and other Foundations, as 249 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304. Third-class postage paid at Philadelphia, PA. well as support from the Rabb school at Brandeis and the Newton school district, the Ancient Greek studies Telephone: (215) 898-4975 committee coordinates the program for the seven school Facsimile: (215) 573-7874 districts and independent schools participating. E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.apaclassics.org Each spring twenty teachers are selected by their school districts as Greek Study Fellows, to take a ten-seminar Graduate course, offered late on Wednesday afternoons and on Saturdays twice a month through the school year. See PRESIDENT on page 2 2 APA February 2004 Newsletter PRESIDENT from front cover York Times and even the White House (but that was a Guided by professors from universities in the Boston different White House); she has a piece on “the Power area, Fellows read the Iliad and Odyssey, the Oresteia, of Images”—and the limitations of those who try to read the Electra plays of Sophocles and Euripides, Sophocles’ them—appearing in the next issue. It featured Randall Oedipus, Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus, Euripides’ Skalsky’s ingenious solution to the mystery of the Port- Medea, The Clouds and other plays of Aristophanes, land Vase, Daniel Mendelsohn’s controversial review of Plato’s Apology and Crito and selections from John Boswell on same sex unions in medieval Europe, Herodotus and Thucydides: these are enhanced by read- and a version of Hanson and Heath’s provocative thesis ings from literary criticism, art history and archaeology. “Who Killed Homer.” But Arion has also published work Discussion of the texts is focused on major issues such by world renowned poets and translators—Heaney, as the treatment of life and death, youth and age, re- David Ferry (before his well received translation of sponsibility and liberty, in the texts and in terms of the Horace), and Tony Harrison, and writers such as Saul interdisciplinary needs of classrooms. In the spring comes Bellow, Gary Wills and in a forthcoming issue the South the two-week study tour of mainland Greece for which African playwright Athol Fugard. participants offer each other presentations on different Although the new Arion regularly has contributions by sites and join in discussions with Professor Koloski- our favorite Classicists such as Michael Putnam, Ken- Ostrow as their “Humanist in residence.” neth Reckford, or the late lamented Charles Segal, it Then comes the active return of new knowledge and also gives us a chance to read revolutionary new schol- interests to the community through the development of ars and poets, to enjoy Leslie Kurke or Anne Carson. curriculum units, resource manuals and capsule libraries The most recent issue featured Richard Seaford’s with products as diverse as a Hyperstudio project on the “Dionysus, Money and Drama,” the next will offer a Odyssey and Christine Vaillancourt’s project for recre- photo-essay on African American classical scholars of ating Minoan murals on school walls. After the course the nineteenth and early twentieth century, an unpub- the Fellows form a corps of teachers and scholars of- lished poem of Seferis and a translation which he made fering workshops, talks and videotapes in other schools of Keats, discussed in an essay by Avi Sharon. There and the community. In this way the program is self-re- will even be a papyrus reading (of which I know nothing newing and Professor Koloski-Ostrow believes that by more as yet) and a piece on corporate models and an- the end of 2004 there will be a hundred school teachers cient political theory by the management guru Charles spreading the word to up to ten thousand children. Handy. The variety is infinite, and extends to both music (a piece on classics and opera) and visual art (witness Envious Latinists will be glad to know that there is a Paul Barolsky on Renaissance art in the last issue). plan afoot to expand to “Roman Studies in Schools” in spring 2005. Since there is not enough space here to Arion is the one journal I would most want to show give the full flavour of this lively and versatile program, friends outside the Classics to demonstrate our exuber- let me simply recommend readers to consult its website ant variety of form and content, and its continued vitality www.gnothisauton.info. is a tribute to the energy and cultural range of Herb Golder and its dynamic Editorial Board. The Outreach Our other prize winner offers outreach to the wider pub- Awards for 2003 should be seen as a small attempt to lic, whether graduates of classical programs or persons express our gratitude for more than twelve years of this of broad humanist interests. After the first Arion ceased splendid periodical, as for the recurring year long diffu- to appear in 1976, a decade elapsed before Professor sion of the love of ancient Greece and its culture by Herbert Golder was invited to join the Classics Depart- Professor Koloski Ostrow and her talented associates ment at Boston University and revive a new version of so generous with their time and support. the successful journal. He brought out the first issue in 1990 (the website displays the irresistible covers and What person or group or project will be the next year’s contents of more than ten volumes, each of three is- winner of the Outreach Prize? This depends on your sues) and quickly attracted radical and innovative con- active communication, on your nominating other enter- tributors: Arion gave Camille Paglia a forum, in which prises by our members to the Outreach Prize Commit- her article “Junk Bonds” won the attention of the New tee (see the call for nominations on Page 14): only give APA February 2004 Newsletter 3 them as much preliminary information as you can pro- Members are reminded that it is possible to nominate vide, and they will explore what is going on in your part additional candidates by petition. Nominations of candi- of the country, or even in cyberspace. dates not proposed by the Nominating Committee shall require the signature of twenty members in good stand- Elaine Fantham ing (2004 dues must be paid) and must be reported to January 2004 the Executive Director by April 15, 2004. A current curriculum vitae of the candidate should be submitted SLATE OF CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION IN SUMMER 2004 by the same deadline. President-Elect Jenny Strauss Clay REPORT OF THE 2003-2004 NOMINATING COMMITTEE Susan Guettel Cole In 2003/2004 the APA Nominating Committee proposed Vice President for Professional Matters a slate of 27 candidates for thirteen vacancies (in eleven Helene P.